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Mary Trump, a trained clinical psychologist who holds a Ph.D. from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, unveils the traum...

The India growth story is fascinating. During the middle of the Mughal regime in 1700s, India accounted for 24 per cent of global GDP. In th...

As long as a language is yoked to a particular faith—as Urdu often is with Islam—it neither grows freely nor is understood in its fullness. ...

Our society may forbid transgressive desires, but it has non-hesitatingly preserved such expressions in murals, paintings and artifacts sinc...

By the turn of the current century, a 3-degree rise in a cocktail of temperature and humidity will make life unbearable for at least 3.25 bi...

Lot has been written about on the medieval Mughal rule in India in recent years, mostly about the iconic rulers than the ordinary masses. Ho...

The writer has always been an avid reader and a collector of books. But it was a health emergency that made him realize that books have tran...

From her debut in 1955, the child artist Daisy Irani acted in over 300 movies. A natural talent with no formal training, she was known for h...

If recent tragic incidents across mountain slopes in various parts of the country are any indication, losing sleep at night over uncertain m...

Salman Rushdie needs a new introduction, more so after the fatal knife attack three years ago that had left him blind in one eye. But the wr...

With a post-graduate degree in Materials Science from Pennsylvania State University, Prateek Dasgupta took it upon himself to pull ancient h...

If ignorance is indeed bliss, as Thomas Gray said in Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1742), a will to ignorance is as strong as a...

Flesh is a rags-to-riches story about a young Hungarian named István. Not too much thinking about himself and his life, the youngster lives...

Despite the shadow of financial hardship, a small family with two children tried to create moments of joy. Born to disabled parents, the chi...

Do rivers have stories to tell? As he prepared to map the Chenab, “a river of diplomacy enshrined in the Indus Waters Treaty”, Danesh Rana w...

Of the 80 Bollywood films released in 1975, only some 15 or 30 reflected the hopes, fears and complexities of the time the society was grapp...